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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life

Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022

We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....

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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach

Doon, Roshnie - 2021

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. Using individual person's data from the Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) for the period 1991-2015, the returns of over-educated workers is...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018

STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...

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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession

Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong … product market competition. In terms of human resources management, credit constraints are not only found to foster employment …

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